Trajan Decius, AE41 of Philadelphia, Lydia. 249-251. Alliance 
issue with Ephesus, Ionia. Magistrate Aur. Rufeinos.

AYT K G M KY TRAIANOC DEKIOC, laureate, draped, cuirassed bust right.
EPI AYR ROYFEINOY ARX OMONOIA FILADELFEWN NEWK EFECIWN, 
distyle temple seen in perspective on the left; in the centre 
Tyche standing left, holding a statue of Artemis Anaitis, 
and looking back at the Dioskuri standing left beside her.

SNG Righetti 1065; Price-Trell 476; Franke-Nollé 1729; 
Mionnet IV, 597 (corr, rev. description) 

Mionnet describes the reverse as Herennia Etruscilla, Trajan 
Decius and Herennius Etruscus).

with permission of Gorny & Mosch, Oct. 2003. (described as
Alliance with Smyrna in error).